SaveBenjy
Sexuality, Queer Animals, and Ireland
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6148933 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Eimear Mc Loughlin (0000-0002-6029-8502, University of Exeter, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 109-122 |
| Publication date | 2015-10-05 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Humanimalia (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2151-8645 • E-ISSN: 2151-8645 |
| Publisher | Humanimalia, Utrecht University (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.52537/humanimalia.9984 |
| OpenAlex | W4231793608 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 2 |
This paper explores the #SaveBenjy Crowdfunder campaign to save a Charolais bull in the Republic of Ireland who expressed sexual interest only in weanling bulls and not the heifers he was expected to impregnate. The prominence and popularity of #SaveBenjy is anything but coincidental. In May 2015, the referendum on gay marriage sought to legalize same-sex marriage. Consequently, #SaveBenjy provides a timely lens through which to view Irish attitudes towards sexuality, while also raising important questions around nonhuman subjectivity and personhood. #SaveBenjy blurs the boundaries between nature and culture and thus, demands a new paradigm within which the nonhuman animal can be appreciated as being inherently and simultaneously natural and cultural
Biology · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Human sexuality · Irish · Natural (archaeology · Personhood · Political science · Popularity · Sociology · Subjectivity · Gender Studies · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Human-Animal Interaction Studies · Law · Philosophy
| Citations per year | 0.5 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2022 - 2023 (2) |
| Highly cited | No |